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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Voices from the field: Working for a just climate in India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 74-92
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, Seema Arora-Jonsson discusses the question of just transitions with a cross section of people working for a better climate in India: a former civil servant and climate negotiator who has long worked with climate issues, a practitioner/activist working on just transitions in an NGO, an activist with a long history in the women’s grassroots movements, a gender activist who has worked extensively with climate change at the international level as well as a networker who maintains a platform for corporations for climate finance. We discuss the context in which transitions are taking place, go on to current policy approaches and its gendered aspects and the structural challenges and barriers of policy approaches to a just transition. In the overarching gloom, we also discuss the rays of hope, and we end with what we believe is needed to take the world into a sustainable and climate-resilient place.
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- Michael, Kavya, 1985
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Barriers and enablers of gender-just climate action: Examples from India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 226-242
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines the possibilities for a just transition centring around questions of gender justice. Through a comparative analysis of Solar Mamas, the Bhungroo Irrigation Technology and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), it responds to recent calls in energy and climate change literature for addressing institutionalised gendered injustices in the climate/energy policy landscape. The chapter seeks to understand institutionalised gendered norms around women’s role as care providers and their impact on providing gender-just energy solutions. The analysis of the case studies depicts that the state mechanisms to engender energy policies and programmes in India like the PMUY often internalise long-standing gender roles where women are seen as primarily responsible for the provision of “care” while initiatives that are emerging at grassroots level through bottom-up approaches like the Solar Mamas programme or the Bhungroo Irrigation Technology are largely cognisant of the everyday realities of women’s lives as care-providers, work towards disrupting gendered norms around care, and envisage a role for women beyond that of carers.
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- Shrivastava, Manish Kumar, et al.
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Gender and India’s climate policy: Bridging the disconnects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 55-73
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gender has been central to India’s development planning. However, an overtly development-centric climate policy seems to have ignored concerns of gender equality. This chapter unpacks the various dimensions of this disconnect between development planning and climate policy by contrasting the progression in policy discourse on women empowerment with the framing and evolution of climate policy as a new development discourse. It is argued that the policymaking on gender in India has corresponded very well to the advancements in the academic discourse and social movements for gender equality. Over the years, starting from the First Five-Year Plan in 1951, the underlying understanding of policy provisions has evolved and reflects a better appreciation of the idea of gender equality as integral to development planning. However, this understanding has not permeated into the administrative and analytical apparatus of broader development policy of which climate policy is a part. The idea of social and economic development in climate policy debates is invariably reduced to a pursuit of cost-effective technological upgradation, oblivious to a vast body of scholarship arguing the social embeddedness of technological choices. Not only the climate policies remain detached from the advancements in the policymaking for gender justice, but the academic literature also feeding into climate policy too has taken an ad-hoc approach towards centrality of gender equality to development. The chapter suggests that the provisions in existing gender policies offer a ready reference for better integration of gender justice into climate policies. However, this would require a political determination to keep gender justice at the centre of development policymaking as well as efforts by climate policy researchers to expand the horizon.
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